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Letters from Mr. Fletcher Christian : containing a narrative of the transactions on board His Majesty's ship Bounty, before and after the mutiny, with his subsequent voyages and travels in South America

by: Christian, Fletcher

Publication date: 1796

Publisher: London : Printed for the proprietor, and published by H.D. Symonds, No. 20, Paternoster Row

Collection: bibliotheca_fictiva; Johns_Hopkins_University; americana

Contributor: The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Language: English

Item Size: 519.4M

8vo. f. [1] (blank), [4], pp. [5]-188. Calf, gilt boards, elevated gilt spine with red lettering panel. Frontispiece lacking.

First edition, later reprinted as ‘Voyages and Adventures of Fletcher Christian.’ A spurious post-mutiny autobiographical fantasy that has been dubiously linked to Wordsworth (a distant relative of Christian by marriage) and to Coleridge, but is probably only a catchpenny fiction, commissioned by Symonds to exploit the renewed publicity of the 1789 Bounty events, and the recapture and trial of the Tahiti-based crew. See R. J. Howgego, Encyclopedia of exploration: invented and apocryphal narratives of travel. Potts Point, New South Wales, 2013, C27; ESTC, T110736.

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